In ~50,000 patients studied, two insertion/deletion variants were found in the paper cited above, amidst a region of seven linked SNPs. Each of these variants reduces risk for myocardial infarction by about a third (hazard ratio, 0.64, CI: 0.64 - 0.80, p=8.5×10e−5) and led to a life span that was on average 1.5 years longer than that for noncarriers (CI:, 0.2 to 2.8, p=0.02). The two variants are: